Wednesday, April 6, 2011

"Themes of Lent: Purpose"

Is your life driven by necessity or by purpose?

Are your priorities arranged according to the urgent or according to what is important?

Are you making a living or making a life?

Are you investing your time and money in anything that makes someone other than your own life better?

Do you get up every day to do what you have to do or what you want to do?

Would you know what you would want to do if every day you could get up and do it?

Is life more about frustration or fulfillment for you?

Why did God give you life today?

These are the questions of Lent because this season asks us to take an honest inventory of where we are going and why.

Matthew 16:21 records how Jesus answered that question: "From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life."

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